Month: February 2016

By Danny Emerman (Sports Correspondent). Sharon had led comfortably for the whole game, but Milton’s late surge put them in striking distance down five points with under two minutes to play. The Eagles inbounded the ball and faced a chaotic full court trap, but the ball was in good hands. Junior Ricardo Ripley maneuvered out of a trap and lobbed a no-look dime over the top of the defense to the streaking senior Matt Lowerre, who laid in an uncontested bunny and thrusted the metaphoric nail in the coffin.

By Danny Emerman (Sports Correspondent). The Sharon Eagles are stumbling into the playoffs with three consecutive losses. Belmont, Cathedral, and Foxboro all thwarted Sharon’s plan to enter the postseason with momentum.

By Sam Lefkowitz. The prototypical MLB third baseman is a lean, agile, and athletic. Because of this, some questioned when the Boston Red Sox dedicated 5 years and $95,000,000 to Pablo Sandoval last season, a player who certainly does not fit this mold.

By Tilak Mehta (Editor-in-Chief). The absence of non-white actors or actresses in nominations for the top four categories for the second year in a row is raising eyebrows and stirring up controversy. All 20 nominated actors are white, and before 2015, this had not been the case since 1998.

By Sammy Kirshenbaum (Sports Correspondent) and Danny Emerman (Sports Correspondent). FOXBORO – The first Monday back from February vacation is usually an uneventful day, often filled with dreary teens missing the sun. On this cool winter night, the playoff bound Sharon Eagles headed into rival Foxboro with hopes to complete the season sweep of the Davenport champion Warriors and close out their season with a win.

By Danny Emerman (Sports Correspondent). CANTON – The game was delayed in every way imaginable. A flukey fire alarm at the end of the freshman game pushed everything back, the JV team won in overtime, and Canton’s pregame senior night festivities prolonged the tip off even more.

By Danny Emerman and Eli Hearne. Cam Newton is usually confident, flamboyant, and affable, but the Denver Broncos’ tenacious defense reduced him to a confused quarterback who was unable to read the defense or avoid the pass rush.

By Jake Goloboy. Rounding the final turn of the Reggie Lewis Center track ahead of Milford in the 4×400, Scotty Kaplan and the Sharon High track team knew they had secured the program’s first outright Hockomock championship and undefeated season.